What do coffee, sugar, wheat, soy, eucalypts and paperbarks all have in common? They are all susceptible to parasitic rust diseases caused by fungi. Plant rust disease can easily be spotted by the ...

Q: I love hollyhocks for their colorful, crinkled flowers, and I have a row of them planted along the edge of my patio which I grew from seed. I was disappointed last year, however, as unsightly ...

What you are describing sounds very much like the lawn of a friend I visited last week. I noticed that his front lawn showed stunted growth and thin areas along with a yellowish appearance. Even from ...

Question. All of a sudden, our plumeria has developed yellow leaves with an orange coating on their backsides. What should I do to control the decline? Answer. Many of our favorite flowering plants ...

Catch these issues early with expert tips on what to look for and how to protect your plants ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's so disappointing when you walk outside one morning and see that something has gone very wrong with some of your plants. Suddenly there ...

What happens when you combine mild weather, rain that lasts for a day or two, and rapidly growing plants fighting for space? Besides a bounty of flowers, foliage might take on an orange-splattered ...

Some 70% of the World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island has been closed to non-essential visitors in response to a recurrence of the plant disease myrtle rust. Myrtle rust, native to South America, was ...

Question: You recommended a fungicide for an orange rust control on plumeria. The rust fungus seems like a natural occurrence, especially as the leaves decline in the fall. I have developed the ...